1. Grant in Texas - July 15, 2013

   As Rich Benjamin writes in Salon today, the “not guilty” verdict “…is an implicit green light for every paranoid, sub-intelligent,
   vigilante racist to go on victimizing black youth. Trayvon Martin is
   dead for no reason other than being black.This murder of Trayvon brings back memories of young, black Robbie Tolan, shot in his own front yard at his home in Bellaire, Texas just after parking his car at the curb.  Robbie’s dad is a retired major league baseball player from the St. Louis Cardinals and young Robbie once had a promising future in major league baseball before a cop put a bullet next to his liver.  The Tolan family could afford to live in tony Bellaire in a neighborhood of homes that start at a half million dollars on up to a couple of million.  But black folk aren’t expected to live there so it can be dangerous to drive or walk about there.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Tolan_shooting_incident

2. cunning linguist - July 15, 2013

   A truly disgusting turn of events.You are absolutely right in stating that Z started all this. He racially profiled a young man, an opinion informed by his twisted notion of who deserved to walk on “his” streets and, against the advice of the 911 dispatcher, decided to persue this young man, who had every right in the world to walk on that street.Armed with a handgun and a wanna-be cop attitude he forced a confrontation, and when he started getting his ass kicked, like the coward he is, he resorted to deadly force.There is no doubt in my mind that some communication might have prevented this outcome. Instead, we had a bully who “knew” he was following a criminal based on his deeply flawed and highly bigoted preconceptions, and we had a young black man, probably scared in the knowledge that he was being followed by some strange dude with unknown intentions. In this case, the one who truly stood his ground was Trayvon.As I’ve said before, this whole thing stinks to high heaven, and welcome to vigilante AmeriKKKa.

3. Grant in Texas - July 15, 2013

   MoveOn.org just had its worst case of cyber attack in its history. They say their best guess
   is that it was sparked by the NAACP petition they placed on their web site calling for a Department of Justice investigation into the death
   of Trayvon Martin.  “But we take on rich and powerful players in the right wing every day, in campaign after campaign: Monsanto.
   Big oil and coal companies. Conservative Republicans. Corporate lobbyists.”  To the chagrin of Fox News and right-wing haters, so far there has been no violence across the nation except for maybe a few broken windows.  There has been more property damage in many cities following athletic events! MOST of the demonstrations have been peaceful and a large number of white Americans have turned out, to march along the side of their black brothers and sisters.  Can you imagine the demonstrations IF George Zimmerman had been found guilty???

4. Mildred G. Oconnor - July 16, 2013

   Yes, it was way back in 1955 when 14-year-old Emmitt Till was murdered in Mississippi for flirting with a white woman. But it was last Wednesday when a white Mississippi teenager pleaded guilty to murder for seeking out a black victim, coming across a man named James Craig Anderson, and running him over with his pickup truck.

5. cunning linguist - July 16, 2013

   That’s just it Grant.The predicted Rodney King 2.0 didn’t happen. And I sense disappointment among the ranks of professional liars employed by the propaganda outlets.I work in Sanford. My friends in the community are filled with quiet rage. There will be no violent confrontations, these people are not stupid.If anything, resolve fills the community. They have learned that resolve changes things, blind rage does not.This is far from over…

6. Grant in Texas - July 17, 2013

   Sadly, a mob did break into a L.A. “South Central” Walmart store but some thugs are always trying to find an excuse to loot whether about a political decision or a sports team victory.  Took them 3 days to decide to “protest”.  Responsible people are demonstrating within the law, exercising their First Amendment rights.   http://www.idesigntimes.com/articles/6690/20130716/breaking-lapd-begin-mass-arrests-zimmerman-protestors.htm

7. Vernon D. Foster - July 28, 2013

   Let’s put it another way to make it crystal clear – a private citizen cannot stalk President Obama, who is black or Vice President, Joe Biden, who is white, for walking on a private or public street, then confront them demanding to know “what are you doing here?” then add violence to the mix. You can’t go around harassing people like that, then engage in acts of deadly violence. Zimmerman was out of order and deserves life in prison without the possibility of parole.

8. Silver Price - July 31, 2013

   Zimmerman gets to be the current poster boy for the widespread and historical practice of a white police force of a southern small town not arresting the murderer of a Black person. It’s a reminder that non-majority people STILL live in a United States where the powers that be in stinky little towns can put their heel on the head of anyone they wish. The cliché is that little southern town in Lowndes County, but I sure wouldn’t want to have to live in Arizona if I were Latino—and the south is not alone; just try Driving While Black in Clark, N.J.

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